The Santa Clara Valley Water District offers an exemption for qualifying low-income seniors from the 15-year Safe, Clean, Water Creeks special parcel tax, approved by county voters in November 2012.

The exemption allows the district to remove the charge from a qualifying senior household’s property tax bill–about $55 for a single-family home and $23 for a townhouse or condo. Seniors 65 years and older can apply to the water district for the exemption by June 30 to be exempted for the upcoming property tax year if they live in their own home as their primary residence.

A transit village with apartments, retailers, restaurants and a hotel is rising in Milpitas next to The Great Mall, close to light rail and the under-construction BART station. It’s one of several Silicon Valley projects sprouting up near transit.